How is it that Congress thinks it will be constitutional to enact legislation to keep the President from firing a special counsel? Haven't legislative branch attempts to tell the executive branch how and when it can fire folks been employees been invalidated at both higher levels (Secretary of State) and lower levels (Postmaster)?

I can see how regulations promulgated by the executive branch might limit circumstances when executive branch employees may be terminated (in which case the focus turns to how the executive may waive, suspend or eliminate those regulations).

It was interesting and unsurprising to see the NYTimes rewarded for its attempt at damage control for Harvey Weinstein by receiving the Pulitzer along with Ronan Farrow and The New Yorker.

Only Farrow deserved it- the NYTimes story was clearly sourced back to the Weinstein company itself, and they only talked to the NYTimes because they were attempting make the at the time forthcoming Farrow piece old news. Simply disgusting behavior by both the NYTimes and the Pulitzer committee for diluting Farrow's award this way.

Relanding the boosters that way is impressive, but I do wonder if it really is cost effective to it this way- it could easily go catastrophically wrong and take down the landing ship, too.

There are videos available on YouTube of SpaceX's early failures in trying to land boosters, most of them on droneships. The droneships survive just fine. Musk has three of them now.

Both of the boosters used in the Falcon Heavy launch and shown landing in the video had already been used once before, that was their second landing.

Space X has successfully landed 24 first stages at this point, and reused a number of them. Blue Origin is also working on reusability and has reused a sub orbital first stage numerous times. Reusability is the key to making spaceflight affordable.

@ Stever There are a couple of criminal referrals at issue today. The DOJIG has made a criminal referral on McCabe. Given the status of the DOJIG I would think that would be followed up on posthaste. The other came from the Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. I think they would be hard for the DOJ to ignore as well. I will have to leave it to the lawyers here to explain the likelihood that any of these will lead to prosecution, but I would certainly think that, at the very least, the DOJ would follow the recommendation of its own IG.

James Comey✔@Comey Special Agent Andrew McCabe stood tall over the last 8 months, when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on. He served with distinction for two decades. I wish Andy well. I also wish continued strength for the rest of the FBI. America needs you.

How many times must a drama queen cry, before they can call him a man?How many times must a G-man lie, before he is called to the stand?And how many times must his cronies be sly, before they are forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.

Partial from WSJ Best of the WEB. Maybe subscriber Chuck will post the entire column for us.

If the disclosure to the court of Mr. Hannity’s identity was essential to the cause of justice, it could have been shared under seal, rather than with the general public. Mr. McCarthy writes:

Apparently, Judge Wood was initially disposed to let that happen. Then, however, the judge allowed Robert Balin, an attorney for the New York Times and CNN, to intervene. Balin, the Times reports, argued that potential embarrassment was not a sufficient reason to withhold the purported client’s name from the public. . . . Without providing Hannity any notice and opportunity to be heard on the matter, she directed that his name be disclosed in open court.

Then, however, the judge allowed Robert Balin, an attorney for the New York Times and CNN, to intervene. Balin, the Times reports, argued that potential embarrassment was not a sufficient reason to withhold the purported client’s name from the public. . . .

Norwich in East Anglia next to the North Sea is called the home of the wind. Or in Saxon that is called Windham.

The ham ending in Saxon English designates a city/home/ville/town. The People from that city took its name designator for a last name ID such as Ann of Althouse. Hence the many of the last names we know such as Nottingham, Cunningham, Birmingham, Parham, Windham, etc. are place names rather than trade/profession names.

"Can't wait to hear more about Rybicki, Ohr, Priestap, Strzok, Page, Carlin, Baker, Kortan etc and what it all means for Yates, Lynch, Comey, Commie Brennan (also an under oath liar), Clapper (also an under oath liar), etc."

It's a shot across their bow. Several of these nefarious schemers remain within the ranks of the FBI/DOJ, and hence subject to the IG jurisdiction. Start singing or get fired AND get indicted tends to focus one's thoughts, particular those able-minded folks living on government salaries without rich wives, banking on a future pension.

The ones outside the DOJ chain of command are also outside government, exposed, without patrons to protect them, and without a hint of influence over Horowitz.

This makes me happy!

Memo to Brennan: there weren't any contacts between you (CIA) and low-level Strzok (FBI) on any of these investigations pre-election, riiiiiiiight?

That would be bad (for you).

After he cleans house, Trump should make Horowitz our next Attorney General!

Today is the 25th anniversary of the final attack on the Branch Dravidian compound at Waco, Texas. I have not heard anyone mention it. Congressman Bob Barr said that the Congressional hearing “was a farce: a virtual lovefest, during which members of the Clinton Administration responded to softball questions from their colleagues in the House with superficial answers, and Republican queries were ignored or glossed over with disdain, if not outright contempt."He also said that “the tragedy at Waco is, I think, probably without doubt the single most tragic incident in American law enforcement history.” Why is no one talking about it? There isn’t even a mention in the “Highlights in History” in the Columbus Dispatch, although they mention the Oklahoma City bombing two years later. Doesn’t it seem strange that the 25th anniversary of that tragedy, which had taken up so much of the first months of Clinton’s first term, has been practically forgotten?

Today is the 25th anniversary of the final attack on the Branch Dravidian compound at Waco, Texas.

Damn, I was having a good day 'til you mentioned that. Cocksuckers could have arrested Koresh at local coffee shop he visited almost every day. Wanted to make a big splash, murdered the children in order to save them.

I had not thought much about the impact of these referrals beyond their specifics. But as Drago and BAG say, the fact that there are criminal proceedings recommended must wonderfully concentrate the minds of the various co-conspirators that we have heard about and who are currently unmentioned. There must be quite a number of potential "rats" who would like to find the safest way off this sinking ship. There is going to be a run on GoFundMe sites for legal expenses.

If you make a list of the failures or outrages committed by Federal law enforcement since Waco I think you'll find it quite depressing. There don't seem to be many significant successes to offset those outrages and failures.

Daily Caller says:FAISALABAD, Pakistan — The father of Imran Awan — an IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who investigators concluded made “unauthorized access” to House servers — transferred a USB drive to a Pakistani senator and former head of a Pakistani intelligence agency, the father’s ex-business partner, Rashid Minhas, alleged.

Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran Awan’s father, Haji Ashraf Awan, was giving data to Pakistani official Rehman Malik, and that Imran bragged he had the power to “change the U.S. president.”

Asked for how he knew this, he said that on one occasion in 2008 when a “USB [was] given to Rehman Malik by Imran’s father, my brother Abdul Razzaq was with his father.”

“After Imran’s father deliver (sic) USB to Rehman Malik, four Pakistani [government intelligence] agents were with his father 24-hour on duty to protect him,” he said. Minhas did not say what was on the USB.

TheDCNF traveled to Pakistan for this story and interviewed numerous residents who interacted with Imran, and they confirmed that he does travel that country with a contingent of armed Pakistani government officials and routinely brags about mysterious political power

Looks like Trey Gowdy was right when he said publicly some time back that the Comey memo's would be Trump Defense Exhibit A if Mueller ever went "Full LLR Chuck/Stasi" and charged Trump with obstruction of justice.

Comey's March 2017 memo specifically recount how Trump instead of attempting to shut down the investigation Trump actually asked Comey to get to the bottom of it all and to find out if any member of the Trump campaign had done anything inappropriate at all.

So there you go.

Comey himself in his memo's slam dunks the obstruction of justice lie.

On top of the now obvious collusion lie put forth by the dems/lefties/LLR's.

So now you know why Mueller handed off to the state prosecutors in NY to continue the coup. Mueller has nothing.

There is only 1 pathway left: force some Trump associate to lie about Trump the same way Fitzpatrick threatened Scooter Libby with a fake charge about a non-crime and twice, twice, demanded Libby give them something on Dick Cheney.

And that will have to be done thru the NY state legal apparatus which is completely under far left control.